Are we, as human beings,instinctively racist?

Question

I think it's a form of tribalism,it is rampant all over the world.We really do hate ourselves,it's a human condition,check out the web,it's full of hate.A human sickness!

Answer 1

Well forgive me for telling the truth but I hate when people lie so I don't. I am not by any means prejudice, I'm not better than any other race or religion(white,Christian) but I would be terrified if I walked through a neighborhood where a white person doesn't go. Not because I'm prejudice but because I'd be afraid they would be. If that sounded racist, please forgive me I'm just be honest. I did live in NY & years ago I got lost in Bronx & people were saying Cracker get out of our neighborhood, & that is something I'll always remember

Answer 2

God did not make human beings racist!! human beings do have loose will it truly is what makes God so mind-blowing. He would not rigidity human beings into doing issues. all of us have the alternative to do correct or incorrect. If someone choses to do incorrect, that's referred to as a sin, a sin is something which couldn't less than God's will, they are straying from God's will so, God has no section in racism except that typically it really is used fo His glory at the same time as human beings replace or live on. yet neways, ask God why he made canines colorblind. i have heard it facilitates them see flow more desirable obviously, and when you consider that they are predators, that's sensible, yet who's conscious. some each and every man or woman is colorblind too, so does that mak them any more desirable or worse than different individuals? No, animals are not more desirable than human beings, God placed us in can charge of the animals, and each and every thing else on earth, because we were made in His image, so i do not recognize why you've faith animals are more desirable than people, yet I even might want to disagree with that. Oh and about the orphanages, there are countless human beings obtainable attempting to help orphaned little ones. not all animals shelter different orphaned animals. Heck, countless the time those orphans are eaten. it really is through no ability God's fault that some each and every man or woman is unkind and heartless and enable such misery to befall the orphaned little ones of the international, yet do not generalize all and sundry through cruelness of a few and do not placed animals up on a pedestal because a number of them are more desirable loving than the heartless human beings in our international.

Answer 3

Fear is among the most powerful emotions and racism is based on fear. I think we are instinctively distrustful of people who aren't part of what we recognize as our kinship group. You see that in the development of young children - they go from trusting everyone to distrusting anyone they don't know (stranger danger phase) as part of their development in early childhood.

People who appear different than us, together with teachings that those differences mean certain negative things, can trigger a powerful emotional response rooted in the instinct for self preservation that all living creatures have. That's why it's so easy to instill racism and so hard to overcome it.

But it needn't just be race or physical differences. Look at how the Jews were tyrannized across Europe for over a thousand years because of the fear mongering that was used against them and they were white. And the genocides in Cambodia and Rawanda illustrate that race is but one possible variation that can be used to divide people by fear.

Besides, we're also instinctively curious and (and despite the best efforts of racialists to counter it) attracted across racial and ethnic lines. However much social taboos my be erected, people still have managed to mix their genes across those "taboo" lines.

This, together with a profound (and some argue, instinctive) sense of empathy for other humans militate against the affects of racism.

Did you know that the vast majority of people have an instinctive aversion to physically hurting other people? Many studies have shown that during much of the 18th and 19th century, even during the most pitched battles, soldiers who could have killed without much risk to themselves routinely and consistently shot over the heads of their enemies. They did this because at the individual level, they didn't want to kill other people. Ths US armed forces have developed their conditioning regimes specifically to counter this reluctance to kill.

So I wouldn't say that humans hate themselves. I'd say we're a jumble of mixed instinctive urges, some positive and some not so, and we're just out here trying to make our way in a complex world.

Also, don't read too much into the presence of so many racists on Yahoo Answers. Many are the same people popping up over and over under different names and they've obviously spread the word that this is a good place to vent and get attention. Most people in the world aren't nearly as ignorant as these disturbed people.

Answer 4

According to what they are taught, if they accept that behavior and whether they intend their behavior to affect others.

Answer 5

maybe but most racist dont wanna change and open their eyes to something different. they fear something that is different so instead of trying to understand it, its easier to hate it

Answer 6

I completely agree, no opposing arguments here.

Answer 7

Fear is instinctive, but racism is taught.

Answer 8

Ofcourse not.